OBSERVATIONS ON MEN EXPOSED TO EXCESSIVE HUMID HEAT

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Observations were made on 11 men exposed to wet heat ranging from 43°to 50°C. for over 6 hours for fever therapy.
The general symptoms were similar to those reported by previous investigators, but the subjects showed periodical exhaustions and following rapid recoveries, first in one hour or later and once more in 3 to 4 hours after the beginnign of exposure to heat.
Sweating was suddenly suppressed after about 1 to 11/2 hour exposure, but it was soon restored. Another suppression was found in some cases, seemingly concomitantly with the second stuporous state of the subject.
Similar periodical changes could also be seen in oxygen consumption but not in body temperature, pulse rate, arterial pressure and water content of blood.